Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Margaret Sanger, famed apostle of Birth Control. Reason: "Most politicians go in for externals but Mr. Hoover has his interest embedded in fundamentals. ... It was Mr. Hoover's regard for child life that...
...great problems of Government is to determine to what extent the Government shall regulate and control commerce and industry, and how much it shall leave it alone. No system is perfect. We have had many abuses in the private conduct of business. That, every good citizen resents. It is just as important that business keep out of Government as that Government keep out of business...
...defining a general policy. It does not mean that our Government is to part with one iota of its national resources without complete protection to the public interest. I have already stated that where the Government is engaged in public works for purposes of flood control, of navigation, of irrigation, of scientific research or national defense, or in pioneering a new art, it will at times necessarily produce power or commodities as a byproduct. But they must be a by-product of the major purpose, not the major purpose itself...
...Charming, too, are they as individuals?courteous, manly, straightforward. Babbitt Clevelanders state that they are not jovial, that they are aloof. They play (chiefly at golf) more for physical and mental exercise than for sport. As railroad financiers they are great tacticians, but not yet great strategists. They gained control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley and the Erie; they have gained a share (with N. Y. C. and B. & O.) in the Lake Erie & Wheeling. They have had the strategic plan of making those railroads into the fourth eastern system. N. Y. C. has helped...
...plans to buy "a few selected mills" (at the present extraordinarily low rates) to turn out unfinished cloth. He will add finishing plants to bleach, dye and print the cotton, then sell the product himself through his own converters, including Cohn-Hall-Marx. United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc.* will then control the entire textile process, from the purchase of raw materials to the sale of curtains and draperies...